Cody and Andrew put their writing life online to help other writers. In this episode, they discuss their current projects, submissions, writing blocks, and why Cody loves writing action scenes. Cody talks about the difference between action scenes in film and prose, and Andrew the recapitulation of story arc within each scene.  Oh, and Cody reads from his debut novel, Ration.

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Andrew and Cody talk about getting an idea off the ground, which ones to pick out, and sketching the elephant between the ideas.  Also, writing for anthologies, and mentions of two new anthologies with their work. Oh, and why an editor might not pick your piece to publish.

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• Winding Paths - Winding Paths: A Playable Reading Experience
• Cozy Cosmic

Where Andrew and Cody talk about writing progress, drafting methods, and growing your writing process. We also touch on creativity, various writing exercises for story generation, and why a smidgen of fear is necessary for writing

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John Cleese 

• Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
• Lecture on creativity

Progress so far, what went right/wrong
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Cody and Andrew discuss the concepts for their stories and planned story development. How does research for fiction work? How much is too much? What purpose does research have for fiction, especially science fiction or fantasy? How do you start the actual writing, after you are done going down the research rabbit hole? How do you turn ideas into marks on the page?


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Andrew and Cody talk about starting a novel, getting ideas, how they generate story, and a crazy stunt they will try and pull off this month.


Read Andrew and Cody's work at Working Title Worlds.